How Fibre Channel over Ethernet Improves Data Center Efficiency

Fibre Channel over Ethernet is an emerging protocol that is creating a lot of buzz in the IT industry. Knowledge Center contributor Jay Kidd shares a quick overview of Fibre Channel over Ethernet and explains how it can improve the efficiency in your data center.

Fibre
Channel over Ethernet transports Fibre Channel frames over an Ethernet
fabric. This enables data centers to increase application performance
while simultaneously reducing cost, power and manageability tasks
by converging storage, networking and clustering data on a single
fabric.
There are six key benefits of FCoE:

Jay Kidd is Chief Marketing Officer at NetApp. Jay has extensive experience in storage, networking and high-performance systems. Before joining NetApp, he held the position of Chief Technology Officer and VP of Product Management at Brocade. Before joining Brocade, Jay was VP of Marketing for Omneon Video Networks (a supplier of storage and networking equipment for video broadcasters) and Multigen (a real-time 3D simulation software company). Prior to working at Multigen, Jay spent seven years at Silicon Graphics (SGI), where he directed marketing efforts for the graphics workstations, servers and SGI Web systems business. Earlier in his career, Jay worked at Hewlett Packard, where he held key engineering positions in the Information Networks group. Jay holds a Bachelor's Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. He can be reached at jay.kidd@netapp.com.